Hi g-listers My PhD thesis dates from 1996 and was created in MS Word 4 or 5. I've just had reason to look at this ancient history but can't do so satisfactorily. It doesn't open in my current version of Word (mac:2011). It will open in TextEdit: the text appears to be complete, as far as I can see, but the illustrations and indices to the footnotes (the references*) are gone, and there's a load of unreadable stuff following the text. *Chemistry at the time didn't use author-date/inline references.
I can rescue the illustrations: they were created in ChemDraw 3 on one of my old macs, saved the files as EPS, copied them to my main mac and got the bits I need in Illustrator CS5. But I want to be sure where each one goes if I have to rebuild the thesis from the text rescued with TextEdit So, is there any way of opening the Word file. I have floppy-disk installers for MS Word 4 but my USB floppy drive won't read them. The hardware I have is 2008 Mac Pro running 10·8·5, with Adobe Creative Suite 5 and 5·5, and Office Mac 2011. 2010 MacBook Air running 10·8·5 - software as above Dell mini 10V running 10·6 Powerbook G4 1GHz running 10·5, 10·4, 10·2 and 9·2. The 9·2 installation has PageMaker 6·5, InDesign 2 and ChemDraw 3 Powerbook G3 Pismo running 10·4·11 I guess the most likely route is to find an old mac with a built-in floppy drive, then install Word 4 on it. Then I could open the file for the thesis and use this to rebuild a version in a modern version of Word or InDesign. But I'm not so keep to buy yet another old mac just for this purpose. Can anyone suggest anything better, pretty please? thanks indeed Bruce -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
